Location: Africa
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Leveraging Technology to Empower Disadvantaged Youth in Kenya with NairoBits Trust
Youth aged between 15 to 24 make up 20% of Kenya’s population but are largely disadvantaged in terms of basic human needs, including access to education and skills development in various areas. Overwhelming evidence shows that people with lesser chances to access opportunities are not only often poverty stricken but also reside in worse areas.…
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Supporting High-quality STEM Education in Tanzania with Tanzania Education Corp
In 2018, the World Bank stated that secondary school enrollment for girls in Tanzania was only 30%. Today, if a female student falls pregnant, she is not permitted to continue with her education. Limited access to schooling undoubtedly causes significant long-term socio-economic ramifications for the nation as a whole. Tanzania Education Corp’s mission is to…
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Empower a Community through Education in Uganda with The African SOUP
With 70% of the Ugandan population under the age of 24, the students in primary school today are in the pipeline to become the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, and voices of Uganda. But with less than 20% of pupils advancing onto secondary school, there is a distinct demand by the Ugandan government to improve…
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Overcoming Cycles of Marginalization in South Africa with LEAP Science and Math Schools
Project Type: Virtual or On-site When: April to May, or July to mid-September South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world – more than a third of the country’s population live in need. Most schooling currently available to South African children is inadequate, perpetuating academic deficit and ignoring the development of…
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Transforming Educational Outcomes in Uganda with Inspiring Teachers
Project Type: Virtual or On-site When: February-April Preferred; September-December Every child has the right to quality education and every teacher deserves the support to keep getting better. Teachers make 3x more impact than any other factor in schools and great teaching can overpower inequity. Today, in low-resource settings, most teachers don’t get the support they…
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Pivoting to Remote Learning in Rwanda
Goal: Support Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology (GGAST) in Rwanda as they provide students and educational leaders with the tools and information they need to adjust to remote learning in wake of COVID-19. Background: In Rwanda, 97% of girls go to primary school, but less than 34% attend upper secondary school, and then,…
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Preparing Youth for Employment with Women in Technology Uganda
Educating girls and women leads to a decrease in social and economic violence, and yet, over 500 million women and girls are illiterate. Women and girls risk being left outside the labor force or trapped in vulnerable or low-quality employment, due to a lack of skills, absence of quality jobs, and gendered expectations of their…
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Inspiring a Generation of Female Leaders in Rwanda with Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology
Project Type: Virtual or On-site When: July to August or early to mid-December According to 2012 to 2014 statistics from the Ministry of Education, out of the 13,557 primary students enrolled in technical training institutions in Rwanda, only 39.3% were girls. The representation is even lower in universities, at 33.35%, due to lower levels girls…
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Pivoting to a Digital Model in Tanzania
Every child deserves access to quality education yet more than half of the world’s children are not learning critical math, literacy, and life skills. If current trends continue, by 2030 more than 750 million young people will not be on track to acquire basic secondary-level skills. A global teacher shortage, estimated to reach 69 million…
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Creating a Community Makerspace in WITU 2019 Project
Addressing the Digital Gap for Ugandan Students 74% of Ugandans between the ages of 15-25 do not have jobs. The majority of them are young women who have either dropped out of school due to poverty or lack digital skills for better jobs because the public schools do not teach with technology. In October 2019,…
